Honoré Chavée

Belgian linguist (1815-1877) · Belgium · On the map · Academics · Died at 62

Honoré Chavée (1815-1877) was a Belgian Indo-Europeanist and Semitologist who started natural linguistics in France. He also founded the Revue de Linguistique et de Philologie Comparée - the first French journal devoted to linguistics - in 1867 with his student Abel Hovelacque.

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